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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

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add feature for enhancing the usage of excel commands

Task bot fails with "Name Conflict" error when opening an Excel spreadsheet. This problem is addressed in the following KB article: https://apeople.automationanywhere.com/s/article/Receiving-Name-Conflict-pop-up-when-opening-an-Excel-spreadsheet P...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Improve Studio UI for multiple screens

In Studio, when we drag 2nd script as new window, it doesn't provide panels like Toolbox, Variables, Output. Aim is to have multiple Studio windows on separate monitors. As we can run script only from beginning, we usually copy few lines from main...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Set a property on which the search result should be sorted in the IS-Connector for ICN

In IDM Desktop and ISTK there was the possibility to set a property on which the search result should be sorted. Unfortunately this is no longer possible in the IS-Connector for ICN. Our customer does not use ICN, but has his own frontend solution...
about 4 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Not under consideration

DE: Want To Debug Rules In Application Service At Run Time While Executing The Rules

We are migrating from CRE to DE and we see some differences in the rule fired results. To find the root cause, we want to know the variable values when a specific rule gets executed. Currently we are unable to debug the genereated DE code using th...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Multi processes in a space data analysis , Pls add ID at activity level in each "items" "Process items" "Stakeholders" "Systems" "Cycle Time" sheet

Currently when I export space to excel report I would like to compare "items" "Process items" "Stakeholders" "Systems" "Cycle Time" of each processes in space (see in "Example comparison" attachment) but with current excel report separately and ha...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Enabling IBM BAW navigator plugin reponse filter for filteredservice "/plugin/CaseService" for filtering the Response in Caselist Widget

Enabling the Plugin filtered services for "/plugin/CaseService"(Filtered service Name): IBM BAW navigator plugin reponse filter works for several filteredservices like 'p8/search' or "/plugin/GetMergedWorkListService" .. etc. So for few services( ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Continue to support the monitoring FileNet P8 function

The traditional deployment of FileNet has the Monitoring FileNet P8 function, but now the Cloud Paks version is gone, and users cannot accept it.
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade BAW \ WAS to run Java 11

Please upgrade BAW to use a newer version of Java. Java 1.8 is very old and does not integrate with Datadog APM \ tracing. Java 1.8 is also very inefficient compared to 1.11. Newer versions of Java would help improve our services to our customers.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

hCaptcha command

Several websites are migrating from recaptcha to hcaptcha and we don't have a command that supports this feature.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Should be add the advanced level on IBM academy in portuguese to become more accessible for people that are not capable of learning new subjects in another language.

More people would be able to learn how to use the IBM RPA
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration